A young scientist, consumed by ambition, pushes the boundaries of nature and creates something he never expected. Told through letters and confessions, Shelley’s novel asks questions about responsibility, compassion, and what it means to be human that remain unsettling two centuries later.
Begin Reading →“An extraordinary tale, in which the author seems to us to disclose uncommon powers of poetic imagination.”
About the Author
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) — Daughter of the philosopher William Godwin and the pioneering feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary began writing Frankenstein at the age of eighteen during a stay near Lake Geneva with Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Polidori. The novel was published anonymously two years later.
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Text: 1831 revised edition
Source: Project Gutenberg (#84)
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Summary AI Generated. Quote from Walter Scott’s review in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, March 1818. Publication facts from Wikipedia. Biographical facts from Wikipedia. Genre categories from Project Gutenberg.